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Thread ID: 122571	2011-12-30 22:10:00	Holiday Road Toll	legod (4626)	PC World Chat

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1251428	2012-01-03 22:22:00	Xmas day, was driving from Tirau to Tokoroa. On a long straight on the highway, no cars around except one - 200m ahead of me (100km/h zone) was a turnoff to a subdivision where a 1980's Ford Falcon (XD or XF?) V8 pulls out on to the highway, doing a sustained burnout. He kept the burnout going as we approached about 100m behind him (he was in front of us, going the same way) and he must've reached a good 80km/h while still keeping the burnout up. Slightly drifting between lanes, until he loses control of the burnout and his car pulls a hard left and smashes head-on into the bank on the side of the road, and bounces off the bank and came to rest in the middle of the lane. It was surreal, like an Ultra high-def movie - car parts and shards of glass flying everywhere at the point of impact, tiny shards yet clearly visible to me even from 100m away. My girlfriend was driving, she pulled over 20 meters behind the totalled car, and I jumped out and sprinted over to see if he was ok. He was fine, and had a look in his face of embarrassment. The car was blocking the southbound lane of State Highway 1, so my partner called the police and ambulance while I directed traffic. Ambulance arrives 30 seconds later, police arrive 2 minutes later and set up a detour for southbound traffic. Turns out the guy had been living in aussie, and just came back to NZ and got his Ford out of storage, got a new wof and rego, and decided to take it out to the subdivision where he had been doing burnouts for a while beforehand. i.imgur.com He wont get insurance because there was obvious evidence of careless/wreckless driving, which the police are dealing with I'm sure.	jareemon (5207)
1251429	2012-01-03 22:44:00	Epic Jareemon LOL You cannot tell me its not revenue gathering when they dont even patrol the blackspots like they used to, they sit somewhere where it is easy to pick up speeders like at the bottom of a hill or hidden at the change of speed sign	Gobe1 (6290)
1251430	2012-01-03 22:50:00	Xmas day, was driving from Tirau to Tokoroa. He wont get insurance because there was obvious evidence of careless/wreckless driving, which the police are dealing with I'm sure. Why do wreckless drivers need insurance? ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1251431	2012-01-03 23:22:00	The weather has more impact on the road toll than anything else . Crap weather = deaths . Fine weather = fewer deaths . Speed limit @ 120km/h = deaths Speed limit @ 100km/h = deaths Speed limit @ 80km/h = deaths (IIRC, the open road speed limit was 50mph (80km/h) in the '70's and there were not significantly fewer road deaths than there are now) Either way people are going to die on the road, usually because their driving skills are lacking or the driving skills of some other idiot are lacking . Trying to get a low road toll over holiday (or any) period is like trying to prevent the tide from coming in with a fishing net . And it doesn't help the situation when the Police (for whom I have the utmost respect otherwise) target speeding as the sole/major cause of 'accidents' . Speeding is an easy target . Lack of driving skill and stupidity are very hard to police . . .	johcar (6283)
1251432	2012-01-04 00:07:00	I like it jareemon. What is amazing is often when something like that happens everything almost appears to be in slow motion. Reminds me of the time this guy was burning up our road and turned around and took off again, then boom and he had blown the engine.:clap:clap	mikebartnz (21)
1251433	2012-01-04 00:32:00	And it doesn't help the situation when the Police (for whom I have the utmost respect otherwise) target speeding as the sole/major cause of 'accidents'. Speeding is an easy target. Lack of driving skill and stupidity are very hard to police... I would say that inattention would be a major cause of accidents. It would be interesting to know the stats for our motorways compared to the autobahn in Germany which has no speed limit in a lot of stretches and yet has a far lower road toll than the USA. Back in the seventies when I used to travel often between Masterton and Napier I would just about always see at least two traffic cop vehicles and yet these days I have traveled there and seen none and when I do see one they are somewhere like I mentioned in post #10 ie: an easy catch.	mikebartnz (21)
1251434	2012-01-04 00:51:00	I was reading Jareemon's account of what happened on Xmas day . I do not mind too much if people pull out in front of me as long as they get out of my way . This idiot obviously had no intention of getting out of Jareemon's way and was the cause of the accident . I remember once when driving a large three axle bus when a car load of girls pulled out from a side road in front of me . I had to hit the brakes and fortunately my reactions and the well maintained buses brakes meant that I stopped in time . There were cars coming toward me so I could not go around them . In my rear vision mirrors I could see nothing but black smoke . There were black skid marks on the road for weeks after that . I think that the girl driver must have frozen instead of speeding up to get out of harms way . I would put it down to her inexperience and inattention . I think that the younger drivers who get their licence suddenly become the world's best driver (in his or her eyes) and they become over confident .	Bobh (5192)
1251435	2012-01-04 02:55:00	I do not mind too much if people pull out in front of me as long as they get out of my way. I too dont mind this if they accelerate modestly to the speed limit so i dont have to slow down, but getting out of the way is good too	Gobe1 (6290)
1251436	2012-01-04 05:42:00	Xmas day, was driving from Tirau to Tokoroa.... Slightly drifting between lanes, until he loses control of the burnout and his car pulls a hard left and smashes head-on into the bank on the side of the road, and bounces off the bank and came to rest in the middle of the lane. He wont get insurance because there was obvious evidence of careless/wreckless driving, which the police are dealing with I'm sure. @#$%^ good job! It's only luck that he hit a bank and not a pedestrian, cyclist, or plowed through a front yard and into a kid. I have no sympathies for yoyo's in vehicles, and am generally happy to apply the 'logic' that they're trying to compensate for something they're lacking elsewhere when they do this sort of thing. By this logic, Mr Pencil D!ck got what he deserved. Wonder if he learnt anything though?	Paul.Cov (425)
1251437	2012-01-04 08:09:00	Glad to see everyone is blaming the drivers and not blaming the roads like the moron talking on Prime news tonight who wants to spend a billion dollars on erecting road barriers. :groan:	Iantech (16386)
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